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I am a nursing student right now and during clinical I feel as though I am very sufficient with time management and all of your tips helped. One thing that I was wondering about was, does it work better to do all of one patients treatments at the same time or does it work better if multiple patients receive the same treatments to do all of them at the same time then move on to the next task. Also anymore time saving task would be very helpful!:)

I am a nursing student and yesterday when I was in my clincal rotation through the coronary care unit I had my first patient who was on comfort measures only. I was wondering how do you observe pain in a patient who is almost in an unconscious state. The nurse that I was shadowing used two techniques, one is to push on the nail bed to see if there is a pain response or to push on a nerve right below the eye brow. I would like to know what other techniques you might use to ensure that the patient is not in pain although they are unresponsive.

I am a nursing student and I would love to hear any imput on how you rate labor patients pain. This happens to be the exact topic of lecture right now. I know that most people use the 1-10 scale or the 1-5 scale, but how do you incorporate how each individual precieves pain. There are you many aspects that have to be assessed also, like cultural and family influences, past experiences with pain and horror stories that they have heard from women who have been through labor.